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Farmers have to apply heaps of emissions-heavy fertilizer to provide crops with enough nitrogen. Scientists are looking to legumes for help. https://media.wired.com/photos/630cc57d45fbc0c7dd23ba03/master/pass/riceplants_science_GettyImages-831134820.jpg
Enlarge / Plants. (credit: James Petts / Flickr) Plants, like all living things, need nitrogen to build amino acids and other essential biomolecules. Although nitrogen is the most abundant element in air, the molecular form of nitrogen found there is largely unreactive. To become useful to plants, that nitrogen must first be “fixed,” or busted […]
Over the years, I’ve been fascinated by two kinds of events at Computex: eSports and extreme PC overclocking competitions. I doubt I’d ever make it as a professional gamer (I’m more of a Counter Fight kind of guy than a Counter-Strike man these days), but I’d jump at any opportunity to pour liquid nitrogen onto […]
Enlarge (credit: Rishabh Mishra) When Volkswagen’s diesel scandal broke in 2015, much was made of how the cars spewed the pollutant nitrogen oxide (NOx) in dramatic excess of regulators’ standards during real-world driving. But that wasn’t what ultimately got VW Group in trouble with officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and European Union […]
